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Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking collection explores a new concept in world literature studies. Going beyond the binary opposition of “major” and “minor” literatures, the ultraminor encompasses the literatures of smaller but vibrant regional and linguistic communities. Using cases as varied as the literatures of Malta, Mauritius, and the Faroe Islands, contemporary Nahuatl novels, Kafka in Prague, and Shakespeare in Naples, the ten essays in this volume take up questions of scale and circulation, the interplay of languages and dialects, and ultraminor writers’ resistance to translation and their reliance on it. Ultraminor World Literatures will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative and world literature and to anyone concerned with the ongoing life of unique cultural communities around the world.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Defining the Ultraminor Bergur Rønne Moberg and David Damrosch At the Margins of the Minor: Rethinking Scalarity, Relationality, and Translation Andrea Bachner Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle Andrea Cabajsky Third-Wheel Literatures: A Multilingual World Seen through Contemporary Nahua Literature Matylda Figlerowicz Semitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of Malta Oliver Friggieri The Ultraminor to Be or Not to Be: Deprivation and Compensation Strategies in Faroese Literature Bergur Rønne Moberg Life in a Dead Language: Modern Sanskrit as an Ultraminor Literature Matthew Nelson The Rainbow Isle and the City of Rain: Foreigners in Mauritian and Norwegian Ultraminor Genre Fiction Rashi Rohatgi Global Masterpieces and Italian Dialects: Shakespeare in Neapolitan and vicentino Elisa Segnini Ultraminor Literature in a Major Language: An Indian Way of Thinking the Case of Chemmeen in Malayalam Bhavya Tiwari The Archeology of Minor Literature: Towards the Concept of the Ultraminor Veronika Tuckerová
